YOU ARE FACE-TO-FACE WITH AN ATTACKER.

NOW WHAT?

• CALL THE POLICE? 

NOT AN OPTION!

Case after case, the Supreme Court has ruled that the police do not have a Constitutional duty to protect you as an individual!

Click here to see cases

• SCREAM FOR HELP? 
• RUN? 
• WRESTLE HIM TO THE GROUND? 

Let's face it. In a situation like this, the odds are all on the other guy's side. Unless you've got help.

An increasing number of women are concluding that, when it comes to an encounter with an attacker, "Guns are a girl's best friend."

The reason is simple: Guns are the great equalizer. Guns give women a fighting chance.

Whether a woman is physically fit or not, a gun is the one thing that can equal a man's strength.

But increasingly, the freedom to own, carry, or use a gun in self-defense is, itself, under attack. And increasingly, the perpetrators are women -- women likeSarah Brady, Hillary Clinton, Diane Feinstein, Janet Reno, and Barbara Boxer , to name a few. Women who claim that turning us into a nation of unarmed, helpless victims is the answer to crime.

And they've had their successes.

Congressional legislation, like the Brady Bill and the Lautenberg Amendment, as well as numerous state laws and local ordinances have, in many instances, severely curtailed the right to gun ownership.

Fortunately, the momentum is starting to swing back in our direction. Concealed-carry legislation is being enacted in state after state. And thanks to a challenge by Sheriff Richard Mack of Arizona, the Supreme Court has ruled the Brady Bill unconstitutional. Even the State of Louisiana, in legalizing the use of guns to resist car jacking, has acknowledged that a gun is your best defense against a would-be assailant.

AMONG THE WEAPONS IN OUR ARSENAL

Political Activism -- WAGC and its chapters work in conjunction with other pro-gun organizations in legislative research and lobbying campaigns through such means as petition gathering, letter writing, and direct involvement in electoral politics. They testify before legislative committees on matters relating to the right of gun ownership. Recently, for instance, WAGC members participated in a national press conference, called by Representative Helen Chenoweth, Republican of Idaho, aimed at highlighting the harm done to women by the passage of the Lautenberg Amendment and calling for its repeal.

Legislative Research -- Women Against Gun Control members are active in tracking and reporting on legislation at all levels of government which impacts on the right of gun ownership.

Media Relations -- Women Against Gun Control members work with press and media organizations in an effort to raise public awareness of the growing number of women nationwide who are speaking up in opposition to tighter gun controls.

Print and Internet Resources -- Women Against Gun Control publishes and distributes a quarterly newsletter, The BULLETin to apprise you of current and coming WAGC projects, as well as recent successes. And through our growing web site, WAGC.COM, and our planned e-mail discussion forums, we're gearing up to more effectively coordinate the efforts of women around the world to preserve their rights as gun owners.

Gun-Related Education -- Women Against Gun Control encourages and helps promote firearms instruction and gun safety training, with some of its members actually serving as instructors.